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Ladies and gentlemen, I've been stranded. This is the new Pixel Watch 2.

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I daily jive the Pixel Watch 1 from 2022.

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And this thing is e-waste because, oh my God, that's a nice presentation.

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You can't replace the screen easily. Mine is scuffed.

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I don't know if y'all can see this, but I don't know how they happen.

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I can't be arsed to have a case on it, and it is what it is, everybody.

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And now they've come out with a new version that basically addresses all the stuff

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that you hate from the old one. Namely, that it had a four-year-old SOC.

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This one only has a one-year-old SOC. No updates on repairability for this puppy.

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It's the same chassis, same screen, everything. So let's set it aside, though.

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Let's check out what else is in this very cool box. On this side, there's a lightning bolt.

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That means power. It's the same charger that I've got.

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It does not look as cool as the Apple Ultra Watch 2 charger.

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That's metal. The magnet on it is okay. Oh, it actually looks a little different.

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It's got these little pins on it. Mine doesn't have that.

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And they actually retract when I press them. How queer?

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How does that work? The back of the watch is different.

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Look at that. A clear difference. And I wonder if that has anything to do with how sticky this is on it,

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or how fast it can charge. You can see there is a square pattern. So can I go on a diamond?

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Like, do I now have to stick it correctly? Because on mine, I just put it on whatever.

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Maybe if I align the cable with the crown, it's like, yeah, that's what I would do.

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A satisfying click, I just heard that. And you can see it illuminating.

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Now, the old watch, there's no way in hell.

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It doesn't even, it's like, get me out of here.

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It's like, no, no, no, I don't like it, I don't want it.

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The other section has what looks like a watch band. Let's see.

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Oh, it's blue. What's on there now appears to be the shorter one,

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which I'm sure is fine. The mechanism to get it on off is a little weird,

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but it's not that weird. Press this section in and then push this to the side.

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So in sideways, and then you enter from the far side

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that is depressable, and then click over. That was easy.

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I could sell these things like that ShamWow guy.

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The major consequence of having the older SOC on the original that people hated was the battery life.

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You could get 24 hours of battery life on this thing.

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You can see that I don't have it always on display though. I have to flick it to turn it on, which is the setting.

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And the other thing is that they made a big deal of the heart rate monitoring being constant on this thing.

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And their algorithms being able to do it so effectively that it wouldn't matter for your battery life,

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which come on, if your watch sucks at battery life, let me turn off extra stuff that I may not need

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like constant heart rate. Look, I'm getting excited about it.

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On this one, they're advertising 24 hours of always on display,

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largely because of the new more efficient chip.

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Now the milliamp hours of these things, the battery capacity is slightly different, slightly.

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So the battery life gain you're getting isn't really from the battery change.

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It seems like it's mostly coming from the CPU. Let's get this thing paired.

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It's already asking me, set up your new watch, continue.

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I'll use an old one. I'll do location, it's the harm there.

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Surveillance capitalist, huh? Where OS4 is on this watch now,

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it's coming to my watch by the end of the year apparently, but it's on here now.

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And that is helping you get faster charging on this thing with your new fancy do-hickey

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with its four contact points. This thing will charge to 50% in 30 minutes

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and 100% in 75 minutes, which is pretty good.

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I will admit, this watch needs to be charged pretty often

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and for a pretty long time. If you plug it in for like a solid half hour

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every morning or every night when you're like brushing your teeth or in showering and stuff, you can kind of get by.

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But I do have a bit of charging anxiety. They're touting this new restore and backup feature.

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And on first glance, I'm like, who cares? What's on my watch that I need to like restore and backup?

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But I learned the hard way. If you go into your Bluetooth devices list

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and you click on this watch and you say, forget this device, like you want your phone

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to just not pair it or whatever, you have to factory reset the device.

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And that means you're gonna lose all your data. With where OS4 is backup, you shouldn't have that problem.

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Which like, at least they were able to solve it some way.

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That was just, I was losing my mind. And the only reason I had to forget all the devices

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is because my Pixel was being so stupid with Bluetooth devices for a bit there.

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So it's Google all around. So Google, you suck, but thank you for doing something.

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Love hate relationship with these guys right now. Oh, all right, they're advertising

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the new safety features here that I don't have. I'm living life on the edge.

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Access safety features on your watch when it's connected to your phone or Wi-Fi.

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SOS, quickly call emergency contacts. Share your real-time location automatically in emergencies.

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And set a safety check to alert others if you don't arrive safely.

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So this is a cool thing where, you know, share my live location is pretty cool.

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But it's a battery drain. This is more like share my live location

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at a particular time if I haven't gotten home yet. And when you shared the live location,

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it's not just the live location. It's also my battery level and phone call status.

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Not sure what that means. Like currently on the phone talking to somebody, I guess.

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Other things that are new on Wear OS 4 is new apps.

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Gmail and Google Calendar are getting their own apps. And I researched it and there's been no words

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from Microsoft on whether or not we're getting teams. That would be the trifecta.

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You can get the assistant now to put things on your watch that it couldn't before,

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including like your schedule and stuff like that. I guess it's connected to the calendar thing.

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A pattern or pin on your watch, I just cannot get behind.

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I think that's, every time, it sucks.

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And the worst thing, you need to enable that. You must if you want to ping NFC tap for payment.

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Give me the freedom. What else, what apps do they recommend for your watch?

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I've already got the camera, which I believe is mostly for like, you know,

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everyone say cheese, shutter button,

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Google Photos, Spotify, and recommender for watches.

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Oh, they don't even show you what it is. They just say, trust us, you're gonna like these.

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You can double tap the crown to get to your wallet, but it looks like for the emergency SOS calling,

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you just tap it five or more times. So you just spam it, I'm a drama.

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And I think that's pretty intuitive. Another thing that they have, if you launch the personal safety app,

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which is the Google app, I didn't know, you can add your medical information to this.

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And then if you do an SOS call, the emergency responders will have that information.

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Knowing your blood type ahead of time, I mean, maybe that'll make the difference.

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Google also sells a medical ID tag that you can attach to the watch band.

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Maybe that's really great for you. It's not available in Canada though.

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You can get it in the US and UK. It's 999. Every one of these has an eSIM in it.

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They'll be used for a lot of these emergency services, whether or not you have LTE.

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This will have fall detection that will call emergency services automatically.

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It's very cool, but even though you have the eSIM, you still need to have a premium Fitbit account

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to get these safety services.

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I mentioned the LTE. Let me just rapid-fire some specs at you.

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Two gigabytes of RAM, it's an LPDDR5. 32 gigabytes of EMMC flash memory.

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It's got Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, and the option for LTE, but that's a different option.

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$50 price difference there. And the IP rating.

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They gave it an official rating this time. Last time, they just, they didn't.

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And they just said, it's good for five out in this series. Which is about 50 meters underwater.

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But still, we wanted to know, can I go in a pool for half an hour? I don't know.

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It's harder to shop across like products when they don't have the like certifications.

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This time, IP68, they just said it. I've been showering with mine all the time, almost daily.

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I love showers, and it's been fine. I wanna talk about the screen. It's the same screen.

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It has the same TPI, which is 320 pixels per inch.

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It is Gorilla Glass 5, which as we've seen.

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And the brightness is up to 1,000 nits. I find I do use the flashlight quite often.

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Really cool that it has white and then red.

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You know, don't wake the baby, or just hurt your eyes at night.

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It's fine, it's bright enough. Don't use it to like go hiking. But you could use it to, you know,

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you're walking along the highway at night before you witness some teenagers kill someone by accident,

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and you know, just so people can see you're there, walking your dog, whatever.

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I know what you did last summer. Is anyone's, I'm old, has anyone seen?

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There's a new multi-path heart rate sensor. So, you know, I went to the launch event for this thing,

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and they were telling me how good their heart rate sensor is. But now it's 40% better.

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25, 25 times more LEDs and diodes than the watch one

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for better heart rate tracking, everything that goes with it. So let's see, can we actually see that?

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Can we see the diodes? No.

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It looks like one blinky green, but I bet if you looked really close, you'd see a lot of blinking greens,

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and you'd even see more of them on the new one. Specifically, they say it's 40% more accurate

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heart rate readings during intense cardio,

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which you're doing, like hit training. I would love to use these features more.

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Unfortunately, I can't wear a watch during my sport, which is too jiu-jitsu, because I'm so cool.

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If you're into one of these seven other sports, running, walking, outdoor biking, indoor biking, okay.

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Tread milling, rowing, and elliptical,

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those things now are automatically detected. I think this, I'm not sure how many of those are new.

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Some of those were already automatically detected. But the thing there is you ride in your bike

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and then your watch just goes, oh, workout detected.

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And they're saying that it's better at that now than it was before.

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The Apple Watch is famously bad for that. There's a new skin temp sensor.

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Can you just tell me what my, how hot I am?

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Can you quantify this? You're a six out of 10. A new electrodes for Ceda, C-E-D-A,

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which enables stress detection, which my watch has, but they're doing it through body response,

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which was enabled on the Fitbit Sense 2.

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I, in the Fitbit app that I have, they have stress,

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it's not stress detection. It can make a stress log, which is pretty dumb.

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It's too qualitative, right? You're like, today was pretty bad, but I had a coffee, I don't know.

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I'd rather have something more quantitative. Like that tweet I posted about LTX,

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you could see my heart rate spiking in correspondence with the game shows we were hosting on stage.

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Yeah, something like that I think is more useful and you get it here.

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What does that look like? We're never gonna know what that looks like

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because I'm not upgrading you guys. I'm not doing it.

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For LTE, it's 400 US dollars. For non LTE, it's 350.

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I might consider doing a little selfish upgrade

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for the battery life. If it weren't for the fact that,

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I'm gonna have to do a huge price cut because the thing is scuffed and there's no easy way to replace it.

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So that's why I'm saying I'm stranded. I'm probably just gonna have to wear this thing to the ground because the knowledge

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that it's just gonna be e-waste, if I don't, is too taxing on me.

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And that's not changed on the new one. So if you don't want that to happen to you

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two to three years from now, don't buy this. That stuff not with standing.

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It seems like the watch they should have launched last year.

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Although I'm not a power user. I really just, I need notifications on my wrist.

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That's about it. And the sleep tracking is okay, but it's honestly not that accurate.

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Sometimes it's like, you had a great sleep when I feel like poop.

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So like, probably should have just got like some kind of used last gen Samsung.

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But you gotta wear this thing and it's gotta look good. And I like the way these look.

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Look at all the colors you can get. They're pretty cute. I think my wife saw this one when I got it.

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It was like, oh, that's not that dumb. Maybe I could be seen in public with that.

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So that's worth something. So that's it guys. If you liked this video,

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why not watch another video where we cover watches? We just had some Apple watch videos, ultra videos,

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or the Pixel phone. It looks like this was smaller than the other non-pro from last year.

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I mean, I have a case on, but the screen is smaller. I'm gonna go back.

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I love small phones.
